Renton, WA, USA
((HOAX??)) Male alleges to have witnessed approximately a dozen orange "fireballs" seen above Renton.
Report quality: Low25/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2012-12-06
- Where
- Renton, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- minutes
- Geo
- 47.483, -122.217 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-renton-wa-2012-6c6784
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- One of 86 documented reports from Renton, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 427 sightings in 2012.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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